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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Fresh Sewing Day

Without a doubt, ﻿my cross-stitch quilt, Thanks to Vesta, was my favorite finish of December! After taking pretty much the whole year to make enough blocks from scraps, it was a complete pleasure to finally bring them all together in a cohesive design. Quilting a fast and fun cross-hatch serpentine and then finishing with a made-from-binding-scraps binding kept me motivated till the last stitch.

Other than one bee block and a few hashtag blocks for Molli Sparkles' Help for Sydney quilts, all the rest of my December makes were Christmas gifts or bags. I found the pillows especially enjoyable, even though they were all paper-pieced! {uh-oh!}
And then last night - after the mosaic was made and all - I finished 1 more Dala horse pillow, yet another gift.

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And every project finished with skill and creativity! I am planning on making some of those Dala horses and snowflakes! Although not strictly appropriate for an Australian Christmas, I can see myself tackling these come June and July!

I had a grandma that taught me how to crochet around hankies. I thought that was fantastic! I also have a cherished crazy quilt block (with embroidery) of her's that was randomly thrown in a box of "stuff" as my aunts divided up the leftovers of her belongings when she passed on. That was many years before I took up quilting. I often wondered why I held onto that. Now I'm so glad I did.

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